Offerings & Events

Communion, ceremony, and enlightenment are integral to the healing path.
We believe that being with and having others be with us is profoundly powerful.
In community, we are lean into and transform in ways that we cannot — or don’t want to — do alone.

In collaboration with our community of healers, practitioners, and guides Shelterwood Collective offers:
Gatherings & Experiences to cultivate connection, creativity, and vitality
Process & Therapy Groups to foster brave, support spaces for communal grow
Workshops & Trainings to raise awareness and deepen learning
Rituals & Retreats to protect sacred space to integrate mind, body, and spirit

We invite you to gather, commune, and grow with us.

Skillshare | Integrating Psychodynamic Insights with DBT Skills to Facilitate Healing
Nov
9

Skillshare | Integrating Psychodynamic Insights with DBT Skills to Facilitate Healing

VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS

This workshop, facilitated by Jennifer Slawson, will highlight how integrating psychodynamic and DBT skills interventions can increase client insight, reduce defenses, and increase connection to enable healing.  Designed for practitioners, this skillshare will offer both concepts and practical application.

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Hearth | An Emergent Salon Series
Nov
11

Hearth | An Emergent Salon Series

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Hearth begins with the question at the heart of Shelterwood: what does it mean that community is our medicine, and how do we live into it in a digital, fragmented age? Join us for an opening evening of heart-first conversation, questions from the room, and time to linger. Doors open at 6PM for wine or tea.

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Open Studio Process: Engaging Creatively with Images and Words
Nov
13

Open Studio Process: Engaging Creatively with Images and Words

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | SHELTERWOOD MEMBERS

Open Studio Process — an invitation to step into creative exploration in community, with creative implements that require low skill yet offer high sensitivity to feeling into what is needed in life’s rhythms as a healing practitioner.

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Kindling: Bookbinding Workshop
Nov
14

Kindling: Bookbinding Workshop

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Join Gitika and Krishna for a hands-on workshop exploring the mindful art of bookbinding. Through a series of grounding, tactile practices, you’ll learn to hand-stitch a thoughtfully crafted, customized notebook to keep or gift, while making space to slow down, create, and connect in community.

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Creative Healers Hub
Nov
15

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

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The Loom
Nov
18

The Loom

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

The Loom is a monthly gathering for founders, placemakers and keepers, creatives, and community builders. For those creating things, holding things down, or dreaming something new into being, this is a space for mutual support, resource sharing, tool swapping, and being in community.

Our September gathering is a conversation on authenticity in business with Julie Mierzwiak of Realfine Coffee and Lynda Lopez.

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Collective Wisdom | Default Settings: Technology, Ethics, and the Practice of Relationship
Nov
20

Collective Wisdom | Default Settings: Technology, Ethics, and the Practice of Relationship

HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS

Technology is designed to disappear, and its defaults can quietly start to feel like requirements. This gathering invites therapists, healers, practitioners, and community-tenders of all kinds into a more conscious relationship with their tools. Through an interdisciplinary panel and small-group reflection, we’ll explore how technology shapes the frame, consent, and privacy, and how it shapes the lives of the people we serve.

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Death Cafe
Nov
29

Death Cafe

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Death is something we all share, yet we rarely get the chance to talk about it openly. The Seattle Death Cafe is a cozy, welcoming space where we gather, with tea and treats, to speak freely about death, dying, and what it means to be human.

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Skillshare | Unbecoming: The Journey of Black Men Stepping into Healing
Dec
14

Skillshare | Unbecoming: The Journey of Black Men Stepping into Healing

VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS

This workshop, facilitated by Jennifer Slawson, will highlight how integrating psychodynamic and DBT skills interventions can increase client insight, reduce defenses, and increase connection to enable healing.  Designed for practitioners, this skillshare will offer both concepts and practical application.

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Tending the Altar | Oracles & Archetypes
Dec
16

Tending the Altar | Oracles & Archetypes

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Explore the ancient language of symbols, archetypes, and sacred imagery in this special session of Tending the Altar with astrologer, tarot reader, and clairvoyant Megan Skinner. Together, we’ll discover how symbolic imagery has guided spiritual practice across cultures and explore how oracles, archetypes, and intuitive tools can deepen our connection to ourselves. Through teaching, hands-on exploration, and community conversation, we’ll create space to engage with the symbols that speak to us and invite new ways of listening to our intuition.

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Creative Healers Hub
Dec
20

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

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Don’t Get Me Started
Jan
5

Don’t Get Me Started

In person | Open to all ages

Come join a bunch of ADHD and Autistic folks for an exciting evening of mutual info dumping. This in-person event is a fun opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals who want to make friends around their special interests and current hyperfixations.

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Tending the Altar | Little Altars Everywhere
Oct
28

Tending the Altar | Little Altars Everywhere

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

In this opening session of Tending the Altar, we’ll learn how something small can become a genuine anchor in your daily life. We'll talk through the elements that commonly show up (earth, water, fire, breath; ancestors, intentions, symbols) and what resonates with you. This gathering is held by Nicole Greenwald and will draw from her own altar practices. There will be space for instruction, reflection, connection with others, and hands-on co-creation/experimentation.

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The Loom: On Authenticity with Rhonda Faison
Oct
21

The Loom: On Authenticity with Rhonda Faison

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

A conversation on authenticity in business with Rhonda Faison of rōJō Juice. The Loom is a monthly gathering for founders, placemakers and keepers, creatives, and community builders. For those creating things, holding things down, or dreaming something new into being, this is a space for mutual support, resource sharing, tool swapping, and being in community.

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Creative Healers Hub
Oct
18

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

View Event →
Hearth | An Emergent Salon Series
Oct
14

Hearth | An Emergent Salon Series

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Hearth begins with the question at the heart of Shelterwood: what does it mean that community is our medicine, and how do we live into it in a digital, fragmented age? Join us for an opening evening of heart-first conversation, questions from the room, and time to linger. Doors open at 6PM for wine or tea.

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Till Next Tuesday | <span class="sqsrte-text-color--black">ASTRO NIGHT 101</span>
Oct
13

Till Next Tuesday | ASTRO NIGHT 101

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Till Next Tuesday is a monthly gathering for Seattle-area women without children hosted by Erin Hartley, LMFT to explore something new, get creative, and connect in good company. On October 13th TNT kicks off with Astro Night—an informal Astrology 101 with light refreshments, and time to connect with other women without children in the community.

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Skillshare | Indigenous Historical Trauma &amp; You
Oct
12

Skillshare | Indigenous Historical Trauma & You

VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS

Join Julene Pommert for a workshop to facilitate the awareness of Indigenous peoples’ experiences of oppression and trauma through understanding how generational/cultural history has an impact. Come away with tools to address areas of oppression-inspired trauma/dissociation in clients’ lives.

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Definitely Not a Cult
Oct
11

Definitely Not a Cult

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Join us for our monthly ritual gathering of bodies and souls, for two hours of ritual, presence, and embodiment. Come with your wild, sacred animal body and your grimy little freak spirit. October 11th we will explore FEAR/DESIRE.

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Thresholds: Become an Approved Supervisor Training
Oct
9
to Oct 10

Thresholds: Become an Approved Supervisor Training

HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS

Join seasoned clinicians, supervisors, and educators Abby Wong-Heffter and Nicole Greenwald for a two-day, immersive experience that centers an embodied, communal approach to becoming a Washington approved supervisor. Our 15 credit hour training goes beyond the legal and practical components to provide a development framework and embodied practice of supervision, consultation, and mentorship.

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Rebalance | 2-Part Masterclass
Oct
8

Rebalance | 2-Part Masterclass

Gain a deeper understanding of the nervous system, how it is involved in stress response, what the brain perceives as stress, and its relationship with sex hormones, sleep, blood sugar levels, inflammation, and digestion. We will be providing practical tools and guidance for putting this knowledge into action on a daily basis, helping clients to recognize when a threat is activating their system, and skills to move the stress through their body in order to return to calm and safety.

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Don’t Get Me Started
Oct
6

Don’t Get Me Started

In person | Open to all ages

Come join a bunch of ADHD and Autistic folks for an exciting evening of mutual info dumping. This in-person event is a fun opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals who want to make friends around their special interests and current hyperfixations.

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The Clinic | What Cannot Be Fixed: A Framework for Working with Grief &amp; Loss
Oct
2

The Clinic | What Cannot Be Fixed: A Framework for Working with Grief & Loss

HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS

Deepen your practice at The Clinic, a specialized workshop series offering advanced tools, practical techniques, and fresh perspectives through teaching, live demonstration, and group consultation. In What Cannot Be Fixed: A Framework for Working with Grief & Loss, Shelley Green will offer a framework for working with the full spectrum of grief and loss, with a focus on distinguishing pain that can be alleviated from pain that must be endured. Participants will build skills for tolerating distress, supporting clients in enduring pain, and navigating the cultural and clinical complexities of grief and loss.

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Art Walk | P.S. We Love You
Oct
1

Art Walk | P.S. We Love You

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

A group exhibition featuring work by Eric Boekelheide, Jane Richlovsky, Ash Kopetzky, Iskra Johnson, Grace Chen & Guinevere Johnson.

Inspired by Pioneer Square, its history, architecture, artists, streets, and the countless stories embedded within them, P.S. We Love You is a celebration of a neighborhood built on its own foundation, one that has long nurtured creativity while continually reinventing itself.

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Consult Circle with Shelley Green
Oct
1

Consult Circle with Shelley Green

VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS

This bi-weekly virtual consult group offers a consistent, relational space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to reflect on clinical work, integrate perspective, and reduce professional isolation. Facilitated by Shelley Green, this group emphasizes ethical practice, thoughtful case consultation, and collaborative learning within a supportive, non-evaluative container. Members are welcome to attend regularly or drop in as needed, creating an accessible commons for ongoing clinical support.

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What We Carry: A Nature-Based Community Grief Circle
Sep
27

What We Carry: A Nature-Based Community Grief Circle

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

In this three-hour circle, we will co-create a container for the grief that lives in our bodies and hearts: grief for personal losses and grief for the state of our world. Drawing from the teachings of Francis Weller, Joanna Macy, and in humble recognition of the human practice of communal grieving across many cultures and traditions, we will weave together explorations of grief through movement, artistic expression, connection with nature, sharing and deep listening.

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Neurodivergent Affirming Kid &amp; Teen Therapists' Peer Consult Group
Sep
25

Neurodivergent Affirming Kid & Teen Therapists' Peer Consult Group

VIRTUAL | FOR PRACTITIONERS

This monthly Washington Neurodivergent Affirming Kid & Teen Therapists' Peer Consult Group  is facilitated by Chessie Snider & Jen John. If you're a Child-Centered Play Therapist, Synergetic Play Therapist, TF-CBT Therapist, EMDR therapist, or Child-Parent Relationship Therapist or other modality, this is for you.

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Creative Healers Hub
Sep
20

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

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Back to School Party: Learning Canopy Kickoff
Sep
18

Back to School Party: Learning Canopy Kickoff

Come kickoff a new season of learning and community together! We’ll gather to mark the shift into fall and orient to this year’s learning canopy and community rhythms. There will be opportunities for networking and community building, mini workshops to choose from, and a professional headshot pop up!

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Consult Circle with Shelley Green
Sep
17

Consult Circle with Shelley Green

VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS

This bi-weekly virtual consult group offers a consistent, relational space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to reflect on clinical work, integrate perspective, and reduce professional isolation. Facilitated by Shelley Green, this group emphasizes ethical practice, thoughtful case consultation, and collaborative learning within a supportive, non-evaluative container. Members are welcome to attend regularly or drop in as needed, creating an accessible commons for ongoing clinical support.

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Art Walk | P.S. We Love You
Sep
3

Art Walk | P.S. We Love You

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

A group exhibition featuring work by Eric Boekelheide, Jane Richlovsky, Ash Kopetzky, Iskra Johnson, Grace Chen & Guinevere Johnson.

Inspired by Pioneer Square, its history, architecture, artists, streets, and the countless stories embedded within them, P.S. We Love You is a celebration of a neighborhood built on its own foundation, one that has long nurtured creativity while continually reinventing itself.

View Event →
Consult Circle with Shelley Green
Sep
3

Consult Circle with Shelley Green

VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS

This bi-weekly virtual consult group offers a consistent, relational space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to reflect on clinical work, integrate perspective, and reduce professional isolation. Facilitated by Shelley Green, this group emphasizes ethical practice, thoughtful case consultation, and collaborative learning within a supportive, non-evaluative container. Members are welcome to attend regularly or drop in as needed, creating an accessible commons for ongoing clinical support.

View Event →
Neurodivergent Affirming Kid &amp; Teen Therapists' Peer Consult Group
Aug
28

Neurodivergent Affirming Kid & Teen Therapists' Peer Consult Group

VIRTUAL | FOR PRACTITIONERS

This monthly Washington Neurodivergent Affirming Kid & Teen Therapists' Peer Consult Group  is facilitated by Chessie Snider & Jen John. If you're a Child-Centered Play Therapist, Synergetic Play Therapist, TF-CBT Therapist, EMDR therapist, or Child-Parent Relationship Therapist or other modality, this is for you.

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